|
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
|
Buy Now
Cultivating a Landscape of Peace - Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,760
Discovery Miles 17 600
|
|
|
Cultivating a Landscape of Peace - Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
This book examines the peculiar new worlds of the Five Nations of
the Iroquois, the Dutch, and the French, who shared cultural
frontiers in seventeenth century North America. Matthew Dennis
employs methods and materials from a range of disciplines,
including archaeology, ethnology, folklore, literary criticism, and
history, to reconstruct those worlds and analyze the consequences
of their mingling with one another. Dennis likens his book to a
cubist painting that describes and orders multiple elements on
canvas but consciously avoids dissolving them into a single angle
of vision. Viewing early America from the different perspectives of
the diverse people who coexisted uneasily during the colonial
encounter between Europeans and Indians, he explains a
long-standing paradox: the apparent belligerence of the Five
Nations, a people who saw themselves as promoters of universal
peace. In a radically new interpretation of the Iroquois, Dennis
argues that the Five Nations sought to incorporate their new
European neighbors as kinspeople into their Longhouse, the physical
and symbolic embodiment of Iroquois domesticity and peace. He
offers a close, original reading of the fundamental political myth
of the Five Nations, the Deganawidah Epic and situates it
historically and ideologically in Iroquois life. Detailing the
particular nature of Iroquois peace, he describes the Five Nations'
diligent efforts to establish peace on their own terms and the
frustrations and hostilities that stemmed from the fundamental
contrast between Iroquois and European goals, expectations, and
perceptions of human relationships.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
